[U-Boot] [ANN] U-Boot v2017.03-rc2 released

[Simon Glass]

Hi Andy,

On 14 February 2017 at 10:40, Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 7:33 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>> Hi Andy,
>>
>> On 14 February 2017 at 10:21, Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 1:01 AM, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>>> > Hey all,
>>> >
>>> > It's release day and v2017.03-rc2 is out.  I think my patchwork queue is
>>> > looking good currently but I'm open to being told there's important
>>> > stuff outstanding.  I'm probably going to grab some Kconfig things and
>>> > perhaps other cleanups I can mechanically confirm are correct.  Things
>>> > are on track for -rc3 on the 27th.
>>>
>>> +Cc: Simon
>>>
>>> This build weirdly breaks on Intel Edison.
>>> -rc1 works fine, while just rebase on -rc2 becomes unsable
>>>
>>> On the first boot *original Edison* Linux kernel (v3.10.98 based)
>>> doesn't print anything (looks like internal crash in U-Boot), on the
>>> sequential we have corrupted media, so, board is basically bricked.
>>
>> We have the beginnings of 64-bit support in there now, so I suspect
>> something there is breaking Edison. Can you bisect it?
>
> I don't think so, because each iteration would require to port patches
> on it. It might take days/weeks since it's not a main work for me.
>
>>> I dunno how to debug this since Tangier/Edison support is not (yet) in
>>> U-Boot upstream.
>>>
>>> Any hints?
>>
>> Hmmm it would be good to get this support into mainline so we can
>> avoid these sorts of problems. I did get the files at some point but
>> have not made time to do it. Do you know if anyone is planning to do
>> this?
>
> Seems we are doing this.
>
>> From memory the patches looked pretty clean.
>
> Can you point to the patches repository or any mail archive which we
> can look at?

Sure - can you please send me an email from your Intel address?

> Currently our work based on latest stuff from
> github:01org/edison-u-boot repository.
> There patches for our opinion are quite far from upstream quality.

Regards,
Simon